Lesson 2Holidays /Traveling Pre-class preparation: Vocabulary concerning holidays/festivals Activities you do during vacation What you like about (what.

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Lesson 2Holidays /Traveling Pre-class preparation: Vocabulary concerning holidays/festivals Activities you do during vacation What you like about (what you can get from) these activities

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Traditional festivals 春节 Spring Festival 除夕 New Year’s Eve 灶王爷 kitchen god 门神 door-god 爆竹 firecracker 鞭炮 a string of small firecrackers 钟馗 Zhong Kui, a deity supposed to be a chaser of demons 大扫除 year-end household cleaning 窗花 paper-cut for window decoration 年画 New Year picture 吉祥文字 auspicious words 春联 Spring Festival couplets (conveying best wishes for the year) 上 / 下联 the first/second line of a couplet 横批 a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription 压岁钱 money given to children as a Lunar New Year gift 年夜饭 family reunion dinner on Lunar New Year’s Eve 拜年 paying a New Year call

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Sites for supplementary reading history.shtml ( some holidays in US) (American holidays and festivals) (celebration of the Chinese New Year)

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Holidays 1. How do you usually spend your holidays? 2. How did you spend the spring Festival/May Day? 3. What do you think is the best way to spend your holidays? And why? 4. What were some of your Spring Festivals like as a child? 5. How do you prefer to spend your holidays, with your parents or with your friends? Why? 6. Do you think we have too many holidays? Why do you think that way?

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A-1 Please talk about the advantages of week-long holidays according to the outline given below: Advantages ---- more time to relax: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. to travel to pursue one’s hobbies to visit friends to read, etc.

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A-2 Please talk about the advantages of week-long holidays according to the outline given below: Advantages ----more time to study to review one’s lessons to learn English to broaden one’s horizons through visiting museums, art galleries, exhibitions, etc.

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A-3 Please talk about the disadvantages of week-long holidays according to the outline given below: Disadvantages: ----negative effect on study: Too much play makes idle minds. less time for study tendency to forget what has been learned, esp. English post-holiday fatigue

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A-4 Please talk about the disadvantages of week-long holidays according to the outline given below: Disadvantages: ----pressure on students who are financially disadvantaged no money for travelling no money to eat out feeling of inferiority strong feeling of loneliness

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As a student, do you prefer week-long holidays or shorter holidays?

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1. During the discussion, why did you say that …? 2. What do you think of students who sleep away the whole day in their dormitories? 3. Do you think that frequent holidays will make people lazy? Why/Why not? 4. What do you think of our government’s decision to lengthen holidays? 5. Do you think week-long holidays will increase pressure on transportation? Why/Why not? 6. Do you think we have too many holidays? Why do you think that way?